Propagation of information about the secrets of folk medicine in the works of Ibn Sina

Propagation of information about the secrets of folk medicine in the works of Ibn Sina

Supervisor: Mirdadaeva Dilfuza Davlatovna,
Tashkent Pediatric Medical Institute Senior Lecturer
at the Department of Public Health and Public Health Management

Ernazarova Lola Kamol qizi 2nd Faculty of Pediatrics 304 group student
Nazirjonov Diyorbek Sherzodbek o’g’li 201 group, Folk medicine

Abstract. Outstanding Central Asian scientist, philosopher, doctor. The most famous representative of the doctors of Central Asia was Ali Ibn-Sina (known in Europe as Avicenna), a medieval doctor and one of the most prominent doctors in world history. His contribution to traditional medicine is great and invaluable. Sow his methods of treatment and diagnosis are used by everyone.
Keywords: Avicenna, Avicenna Medicine, Medical History, Traditional Medicine
He was born in 980 in the village of Afshana near the city of Bukhara. When he was 10, his parents moved him to Bukhara. There he began to study. At the age of 14 he became interested in medicine, read all the treatises that could be found in Bukhara, began to visit the sick, and the most difficult ones. At the age of 17, he was already a famous doctor in Bukhara. He was appointed the personal physician of the emir and received the right to use the famous palace library. In 1005, Avicenna moved to Khorezm, where he met the great mathematician and astronomer Beruni and other scientists. In Khorezm they began to call him “the prince of doctors”. At the age of 20 - the author of several books: an extensive encyclopedia about natural sciences, consisting of 20 volumes, a book on ethics, a medical science. Seven years later, Avicenna left for Djurdjan, work on the famous "Canon of Medicine" began. From 1015-24 he lived in Hamadan. For the successful treatment of Emir Shams ad-Dawl, he received the position of a vizier, but he also fell out of favor, even was imprisoned in Zindan, where he also wrote several books. He graduated from the first volume - 'The Canon of Medicine', consisting of five volumes.

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  The first book is devoted to the theory of medicine and consists of four large sections: introduction, anatomy and physiology; causes of diseases; symptoms of illness; diet, prevention, general principles of treatment.
  
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  The second volume deals with simple medicines. There are almost eight hundred of them. The roots and bark of many trees can help a person fight disease.
  
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  The third and fourth volumes describe diseases of human organs, talk about methods of treatment. Avicenna also talks about how to treat fractures of the skull, nose, jaw, collarbone, ribs.
  
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  The fifth volume deals with complex medicines. Some of them include up to 37 parts. Many medicines are given with reference to the most ancient doctors, European and Asian. Others were prepared and tested for the first time by Avicenna.
  

He argued that smallpox and plague can be infected by inhaling the air coming from the patient, he recognized the possibility of transmission of the disease through the placenta, through soil and water, and to prevent this, he recommended boiling water. After the death of the ruler, Avicenna was thrown into prison. Where he continued to work hard. Ibn Sina left a noticeable mark on the medicine science. He collected information about medicines from the works of ancient Greek, Indian and other doctors, significantly supplemented with his own observations and experience, including many traditional medicines, Indian and Chinese medicines and many means that were given by the chemistry that was nascent in the East. Ibn Sina described many new, unknown to the previous authors, medicines of herbal, animal and mineral origin.
Ibn Sina left valuable information in the field of folk healing. The concept is wide enough and historically the most ancient. It includes a set of means and techniques of folk healing, developed as a result of empirical experience throughout history. Aromatherapy or scent treatments. Aromatherapy is a field of knowledge about the methods and forms of action on the body of aromatic concentrated volatile substances obtained from different parts of plants using various physical methods.
Ibn Sina in his books described a thousand about different types of drugs, about their composition, effects on the body. His works are still used in various branches of medicine and pharmacology.
Here are some examples: he isolated Khurf from plants - sowing watercress. Actions and properties. Warms, dissolves, promotes maturation and, moreover, softens; absorbs pus in cavities. Used as a drink or as an ointment, it delays hair loss. It is good for mucous tumors, and with water and salt it is used in the form of a medicinal bandage for boils. In case of wounds and ulcers, the sowing watercress helps against lichens, and in a mixture with honey it eliminates the “honey ulcer” and removes the “Persian fire”. Cleans the lungs, helps with asthma. Warms up the stomach and liver. Helps with hypersplenism. Hasha is thyme. Actions and properties. Dissolves, tears off thickened and clotted blood; warms so much that the syrup from it does not allow “goose bumps” to appear in winter. Thyme is used for medicinal dressings with vinegar for recent mucous tumors. Thyme is mixed with food and this preserves the power of sight and removes its weakness. Thyme in the form of a decoction or medicine with honey for lubrication cleanses the chest and lungs, promotes expectoration and soothes pain in the cartilage of the false ribs. Promotes digestion, and thyme syrup strongly relieves indigestion and lack of appetite. Thyme drives urine and periods and removes worms. If you drink two to four dirhams of thyme, then it drives mucus without harm, causing sufficient relaxation. Hiltite is a smelly ferula gum, asafoetida. Actions and properties. With its absorbing property, it breaks and drives the winds, but at the same time swells. It tears off and dissolves the blood that has thickened inside the body. In the form of mud cakes with vinegar and pepper, it helps against "fox" disease, and if consumed in meals, it improves complexion and reduces "nail warts". If you open up malignant and fatal tumors for a given organ and put hiltitis on them, it helps. also good for treating external and internal abscesses. Hiltite helps with lichens. Very useful for four-day fever.
From metals Zibak described - mercury. Actions and properties obtained by sublimation - astringent. "Killed" mercury with rose oil is a cure for lice and nits. "Killed" mercury with rose oil and drugs against jarab and against malignant ulcers [is used] for [curing] jarab. Mercury vapor causes paralysis, tremors and entanglement of organs. Mercury smoke is deafening and, when fumigated, produces a stench from the mouth. Mercury smoke makes you blind. Give to drink "killed" mercury with intestinal obstruction. Sublimated mercury kills, as it abruptly tears off the juices. Effective treatment for this is drinking milk and vomiting. Mercury kills mice, and insects and snakes flee from its smoke.
Zift is resin. Actions and properties. causes ripening of thick juices, cleanses and warms. Removes white spots from nails, attracts blood to organs, fattening them, Zift is used to lubricate cracks on the foot and on other organs, the bandage promotes hair growth in case of "fox" disease. Especially with crushed incense and honey, it reduces lichens, grows meat in deep ulcers and clears ulcers with bad fluids. Helps with muscle tumors. Fresh and dry very good for scalp ulcers. The smoke from the zift makes the eyelashes beautiful, makes them grow, prevents watery eyes, fills eye ulcers and strengthens vision. Fresh zift, if you lubricate the palate with it, is good for tonsillitis. And its abundant use causes diarrhea. An enema is made from it for hot and hard tumors in the intestines, in the uterus and in the testicles. It is included in medicines for injuries of the bladder mouth.
Hadid is iron. Actions and properties. Iron rust is something astringent and corrosive; iron rust with wine is applied with a nail eater. Rust of iron with wine is used to lubricate erysipelas and pimples. Iron rust with wine is applied for gout, and it helps. Iron rust is good for the thickening of the eyelids and for the pterygoid hymen. If the rust is rubbed in strong vinegar and boiled in it, then this vinegar will be a cure for chronic suppuration from the ear. Of the living creatures
Hayya is a snake. The best snake meat is female, and the best skin is male. Actions and properties. snake meat brings the surplus to the skin, especially when a person is not clean. One man who ate snake meat got a big boil on his neck and when it was punctured, all its contents came out in the form of lice. If: eating snake meat prolongs life; strengthens strength, retains the acuteness of feelings and youth. Tools with joints. If you sip broth from a snake, which was cut off from the head and tail of about four fingers and then boiled it as we mentioned, or eat its meat, it helps with pain in the nerves. Snake skin works the same way.
According to scientists, Avicenna wrote more than 450 works, of which about 240 have survived. "Medicines" —The work details the role of the heart in the onset and manifestation of pneuma, especially the diagnosis and treatment of heart diseases. Ibn Sina died on June 24, 1037. He was buried in Hamadan near the city wall, and after 8 months his ashes were transported to Isfahan and buried in the mausoleum of Al ad-Daul.
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   Nafisi S. Avicenna in Europe. In: Jashn Nameh Ibn Sina., 1334